Nigeria, Feb. 14 -- This report is from today's TNC's Daily Open, our international markets update. TNC Daily Open keeps investors informed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are.

People are forward-thinking beings. It increases our chances of success and survival by enabling us to plan for the future, but it can also hold us back by causing us to become paralyzed by worry and inaction.

In Thursday's markets, the two factors were in a delicate tension.

The U.S. producer price index's January monthly reading was warmer than expected. However, according to Citigroup projections, the price of some PPI components decreased, resulting in a soft personal consumption expenditure prices index report.

In the meantime, U.S. P...